Thanks a lot Courtney!

Ferrioxalate photocatalysis: A multitasking platform for reductive iron catalysis Iron’s abundance motivates its use in sustainable catalyst systems that also offer complementary reactivity manifolds compared to precious metals. However, the challenging reduction of benchmark iron ...

Great way for chemsky to kick off 2026 as @fabiojulia7.bsky.social and company repurpose the ferrioxalate system as a versatile photoredox catalyst for dehalogenation, hydrocarboxylation, and cross-coupling reactions!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Great work by my amazing team formed by Carlos, Sergio, Nojus, Partha and visiting students Sara and Ken. Thanks to all the funders as well for trusting us with this project! (5/5)
@erc.europa.eu @ageinves.bsky.social @FundacionSeneca
@um.es

This has enabled the development of a new catalytic system able to mediate a wide range of reductive transformations inaccessible under Fe catalysis to date, including 2 unprecedented transformations: indanone assembly and reductive cross-coupling of e-deficient alkenes (4/5).

In this work we have repurposed this LMCT reactivity to enable the use of oxalate as 2e-reductants for Fe catalysis under a single photon excitation, enabling access to highly reactive reduced species, otherwise challenging to reach from simple iron salts (3/5).

Known for over 130 years, the photochemical decomposition of Fe(III) oxalates has become a cornerstone in the field of photochemistry, used on a daily basis to determine quantum yields of photochemical reactions (2/5).

Ferrioxalate photocatalysis: A multitasking platform for reductive iron catalysis Iron’s abundance motivates its use in sustainable catalyst systems that also offer complementary reactivity manifolds compared to precious metals. However, the challenging reduction of benchmark iron ...

After >3 years on the making, we are very excited to introduce Ferrioxalate Photocatalysis in a work published today in
@science.org :
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A thread below (1/5) 👇

We are happy to announce the first "Spanish Junior Leaders in Synthesis and Catalysis”, a one-day symposium which will take place in Murcia next October 16th. Info and free registration here: juniorleadersyncat.com
See you in Murcia!

Congrats Courtney!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Amazing experience attending to this inspiring meeting. Thanks @swisschemistry.bsky.social and the organizers for the JSP Fellowship

A big 🙏🏼GRACIAS🙏🏼 to #JoseLuisMascareñas from @ciqus.bsky.social - our wonderful president of 58 Bürgenstock conference 🇨🇭🧪⚗️ for the fantastic program & bringing the warm Spanish touch! ❤️❤️What a magic week ✨🪄! Great to meet the Spanish crew 😉❤️ #bc_scs25

Resolución de las Becas Leonardo 2024 en Física, Química e Ingenierías Las comisiones evaluadoras han seleccionado 20 proyectos altamente innovadores en estos tres campos fundamentales de la ciencia y la tecnología

Delighted to share that I've been awarded with the Leonardo Grant from #FundaciónBBVA to explore inaccesible aminoacid mutagenesis enabled by iron photocatalysis at #UniversidaddeMurcia #MEdAL #BecasLeonardo
www.redleonardo.es/noticias/adj...

Thanks to the funding agencies that are constantly supporting our research to exploit this concept!
@erc.europa.eu @ageinves.bsky.social @um.es #fundacionSeneca (3/3)

The purpose of this work is bridging the gap between Inorganic Photophysics and Synthetic Organic Chemistry practitioners, providing basic principles to facilitate the understanding on how electronic reorganization in the excited state can unveil useful chemical reactivity (2/3)

Catalysis in the Excited State: Bringing Innate Transition Metal Photochemistry into Play Transition metal catalysis is an indispensable tool for organic synthesis that has been harnessed, modulated, and perfected for many decades by careful selection of metal centers and ligands, giving r...

If you wonder about how to harness innate excited-state reactivity in TM photocatalysis to design new synthetic methods, you can find some guidelines and a rationalization attending to orbitals in this Perspective, just published in
ACSCatalysis @acs.org:
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
(1/3)

This week we are hosting Tom and Michael, our collaborators from AstraZeneca Gothenburg. Thanks for coming and enjoy your stay in Murcia!

Our group and @FjhGroup are (finally) moving to the new labs!! Now time to fill them with amazing coworkers and exciting chemistry!

October brings new faces to our lab! Welcome to Dalila (🇮🇹PhD student) and Nojus (🇱🇹Postdoc), our new group members, as well as Sara (🇮🇹) and Ken (🇯🇵), who joined us as visiting students. I hope you all have a nice time with us!
#realtimechem

Really excited to share the news that our project #ExCEL will be funded by #ERCStG from @ERC_Research! We will “activate” Fe catalysis with light during the next 5 years at
@UMU🧪💡